Keeping Cabinteely free of litter

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Spring Clean in the village

Saturday 13th April was a great day!

Updated on April 18, 2013

It's time to celebrate! We had a great turn out for this years 2013 Spring Clean, and the weather was very accommodating throughout the day. Thanks to all of the many volunteers who joined in to make the event a huge success. The Tidy Town team and volunteers would like to give special thanks to Frank Quinn Catering at the Horse and Hound who fed everyone after Spring Clean day. This was very well received by all. Also, the Landscape Center on Clonkeen Cul de Sac is very generously delivering us top soil for the 5 beds at the Horse and Hound. This will really improve the look of the beds and help the plants grow, and we are all delighted to receive this generous gift. So thank you again everyone for volunteering your time to help keep Cabinteely clean. It is appreciated by everyone.

If you'd like to help out, even just once, or have any suggestions, please contact us by filling out the contact form. It's not all about picking up litter. There is usually some painting, weeding or planting to be done. Also, we'd love to cover a larger area but we can only do this if we get more volunteers to help out. As well as helping to keep the area in good shape, it's a great way to meet new people and make a positive contribution to the community.

  

About Cabinteely

Updated on Feb 10, 2011

Cabinteely (Cabán tSíle in Irish, meaning "Sheila's Cabin") is a village in the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown in Dublin. It was once a rural village as can be seen from the layout of houses, shops and a church centred around a traditional crossroads.

 

 

Cabinteely Park is a public park comprising about 45 hectares on a portion of the land that immediately surrounds Cabinteely House. It contains many of the landscape features associated with such extensive properties of the 18th and early 19th centuries. These include the substantial boundary wall, gate lodges, ornate iron entrance gates, walled garden, circuitous approach road to the house, ha-ha ditch and informal groups of trees as well as continuous boundary tree planting containing a high proportion of beech. Cabinteely Adventure Playground is a recent addition and the park also includes soccer fields, woodland trails.

 

Cabinteely library is a Carnegie Library, built in 1912 in the Arts and Crafts style. The facade consists of rough squared granite rubble and roughcast render. Architectural features include a copper cupola, tiled roof and leaded windows. The building was renovated in 1972. There is a garden to the rear where a biodiversity garden has been planted by the Tidy Towns group.